From tree to globe—quantitative solutions in forest ecosystem science.

Contact one of our faculty for more information on current opportunities for graduate study. Research areas include:

• Geospatial and environmental analysis

• Ground-based LiDAR applications in forest modeling and assessment

• Evaluation of forest ecosystem models for Southern Appalachian forests

• Sampling and inventory methods for modeling

• Bayesian methods for forest inventory and modeling

• Decision support for loblolly pine carbon management

• Error analysis in geographic information systems

• GPS and remote sensing applications in forest inventory and carbon management

• Modeling forest yields and stand structural patterns

• Carbon modeling including production and decay of coarse woody debris in managed loblolly pine forests
  

Graduate Faculty

• Harold E. Burkhart
• John A. McGee
• Richard G. Oderwald
• Stephen P. Prisley
• Philip J. Radtke
• Marion R. Reynolds, Jr. (Joint with Statistics—Department of Statistics)
• Randolph H. Wynne

Program Faculty

• Ralph L. Amateis